The Importance of Awareness

For hours afterwards, even days afterwards, I'll be jumpy in normal settings because my brain is still processing the fight-or-flight response from having watched the horror films where I just avoid them. And there we have how something as simple as turning up the volume on the stereo that you might not necessarily really notice just completely threw me off. It obviously wasn't a massive shift in volume, but it was enough to make me feel unsettled. So this sensitivities of other people's emotions and intangible factors like volume mean that I am operating on a heightened level of awareness. You are aware of something that can throw you off. And it's not always that this feeling means I leave